Source: UNESCO
Subject: International Organisation
Context: The UNESCO Media and Information Literacy Alliance has announced the election of its first-ever Global Board, marking a major milestone in its institutional governance.
About UNESCO Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Alliance:
What it is?
- The MIL Alliance is a global collaborative network coordinated by UNESCO, bringing together organisations and experts to advance media and information literacy (MIL) and counter disinformation, misinformation, and hate speech.
Launched in:
- 2013, at the Global Forum for Partnerships on MIL in Abuja, Nigeria.
- Relaunched in 2025 during Global MIL Week with the Cartagena Declaration, alongside a renewed strategic action plan.
Organisation(s) involved:
- UNESCO (coordination through its MIL Unit).
- 300+ organisations and 180 individual experts from 100+ countries.
Aim:
- Strengthen societal resilience to disinformation, misinformation, and hate speech.
- Enable the MIL community to shape policies and practices at global, regional, and national levels.
Key functions:
- The Global Board serves as the Alliance’s primary decision-making and coordination body, ensuring inclusive governance, strategic coherence, and effective collaboration across regions.
- The Alliance contributes expert inputs to global and regional policy discussions, helping shape norms, standards, and strategies on media and information literacy.
- It facilitates the sharing of research, tools, and successful practices, strengthening institutional and community capacity to address disinformation and media risks.
- The Board oversees continuous improvement of the MIL Alliance platform, ensuring it remains responsive, user-centric, and aligned with evolving MIL needs.
- The Alliance enables structured growth through new chapters while maintaining transparency and accountability via coordinated monitoring and annual reporting.
